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• Hij is geboren op 3 augustus 1648 in Easton Neston, Northamptonshire.
• Titel: 1st Baron Leominster
• Hij is overleden op 7 december 1711 in Easton Neston, Northamptonshire, hij was toen 63 jaar oud.
• Een kind van William FERMOR en Mary PERRY

Gezin van William FERMOR

(1) Hij heeft/had een relatie met Catherine PAULET.

Kind(eren):

1. Mary FERMOR  ± 1690-???? 

(2) Hij heeft/had een relatie met Sophia OSBORNE.

Kind(eren):

1. Thomas FERMOR  1698-1753 

(3) Hij is getrouwd met Jane BARKER.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 21 december 1671 te Parish Church, Easton Neston, Northamptonshire, hij was toen 23 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Elizabeth FERMOR  ????-1705

Notities over William FERMOR

William Fermor, 1st Baron Leominster (alias Lempster) (3 August 1648 - 7 December 1711), styled Sir William Fermor, 2nd Baronet from 1661 to 1692, was an English politician and peer.

Fermor was the second but eldest surviving son of Sir William Fermor, 1st Baronet (1621-1661) (alias Farmer), of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire, by his wife Mary Perry, widow of Henry Noel, second son of Edward Noel, 2nd Viscount Campden and a daughter of Hugh Perry of the City of London.

Fermor was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford. He succeeded as second baronet in 1661, was elected a Member of Parliament for Northampton in 1671 and again in 1679.

He was elevated to the peerage on 12 April 1692, as Baron Leominster (alias Lempster) of Leominster, Herefordshire.

Easton Neston
Leominster re-built the mansion house at Easton Neston and planned the gardens and plantations, the wings being to the design of Sir Christopher Wren with the house completed 20 years later in 1702 to the design of Nicholas Hawksmoor. He adorned the whole with part of the Arundel marbles which he had purchased and which his son attempted to restore with the assistance of the Italian sculptor Giovanni Battista Guelfi, a scholar of Camillo Rusconi. The collection was afterwards greatly neglected. Horace Walpole wrote as follows to George Montagu on 20 May 1736: "Coming back, we saw Easton Neston, where in an old greenhouse is a wonderful fine statue of Tully haranguing a numerous assembly of decayed emperors, vestal virgins with new noses, Colossus's, Venus's, headless carcases, and carcaseless heads, pieces of tombs, and hieroglyphics." The marbles were presented in 1755 to the University of Oxford by Henrietta Louisa, Countess of Pomfret. A description of Easton Neston and its art treasures is included in the Catalogue of the Duke of Buckingham's Pictures.

Marriage and issue
Fermor married thrice:

Firstly, to Jane Barker, a daughter of Andrew Barker of Fairford, Gloucestershire. Andrew Barker was of the ancient Barker (alias Coverall) family of Coverall Castle and Hopton Castle both in Shropshire, and had acquired the manor of Fairford in about 1660. By Jane Barker he had a daughter:
Elizabeth Fermor (d.March 1705), who died unmarried. She spent the large sum of £200 in protecting the magnificent 1490s Fairford stained glass windows in Fairford Church.

Secondly, he married Catherine Poulett, a daughter of John Poulett, 3rd Baron Poulett, by whom he a daughter:
Mary Fermor, who married Sir John Wodehouse, 4th Baronet, of Kimberley, Norfolk.

Thirdly, he married Lady Sophia Osborne (1661-1746), widow of Donough, Lord Ibrackan (grandson and heir of Henry O'Brien, 7th Earl of Thomond), and daughter of Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds by his wife Lady Bridget Bertie, a daughter of Montagu Bertie, 2nd Earl of Lindsey. By Sophia he had five children including:
Thomas Fermor, 1st Earl of Pomfret, only son and heir.
Matilda Fermor, who married Edward Conyers, MP, of Copt Hall.

Death & succession
Fermor died on 7 December 1711, and was succeeded by his only son, Thomas Fermor, who was created Earl of Pomfret (i.e. Pontefract, Yorkshire) on 27 December 1721.
SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Fermor,_1st_Baron_Leominster

FERMOR, WILLIAM, Lord Leominster (d. 1711), connoisseur, was the eldest son of Sir William Fermor, bart., of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire by Mary, daughter of Hugh Perry of London and widow of Henry Noel, second son of Edward, viscount Campden.

He succeeded as second baronet in 1671, was elected M.P. for Northampton in 1671 and again in 1679, and was elevated to the peerage, 12 April 1692, by the title of Baron Leominster of Leominster, Herefordshire.

He was thrice married: first to Jane, daughter of Andrew Barker of Fairford, Gloucestershire, by whom he had a daughter, Elizabeth, who died unmarried in March 1705; secondly, to the Hon. Katherine Poulett, daughter of John, first lord Poulett, by whom he had Mary, married to Sir John Wodehouse, fourth baronet, of Kimberley, Norfolk; and, thirdly, to Lady Sophia Osborne, daughter of Thomas, first duke of Leeds, and widow of Donogh, lord Ibrackan, grandson and heir of Henry, seventh earl of Thomond. By this lady, who survived until 8 Dec. 1746, he had a son, Thomas, and four daughters.

Leominster built the house and planned the gardens and plantations at Easton Neston. The house was completed by Nicholas Hawksmoor in 1702, about twenty years after the erection of the wings by Sir Christopher Wren.

He adorned the whole with part of the Arundel marbles which he had purchased and which his son had actually the temerity to attempt to restore with the assistance of one Giovanni Battista Guelfi, ‘a scholar of Camillo Rusconi.’

The collection was afterwards greatly neglected. ‘Coming back,’ writes Walpole to Montagu on 20 May 1736, ‘we saw Easton Neston, where in an old greenhouse is a wonderful fine statue of Tully haranguing a numerous assembly of decayed emperors, vestal virgins with new noses, Colossus's, Venus's, headless carcases, and carcaseless heads, pieces of tombs, and hieroglyphics’ (Letters, ed. Cunningham, i. 6). The marbles were presented in 1755 to the university of Oxford by Henrietta Louisa, countess of Pomfret.

A description of Easton Neston and its art treasures is included in the ‘Catalogue of the Duke of Buckingham's Pictures,’ 4to, London, 1758 (pp. 53-66).

Leominster died 7 Dec. 1711, and was succeeded by his only son, Thomas, who was advanced to an earldom 27 Dec. 1721 by the title of Earl of Pomfret, or Pontefract, Yorkshire.
SOURCE: [Collins's Peerage (Brydges), iv. 205-6; Bridges's Northamptonshire, i. 289.] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Fermor,_William_(d.1711)_(DNB00)

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